Death Foretold

Death takes no bribes. - Benjamin Franklin

Biography lends to death a new terror. - Oscar Wilde

It is not death but dying which is terrible. - Henry Fielding

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson

Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. - Danish Proverb

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. - Unknown

Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. - Walter Scott

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. - Jacqueline Cochran

The American Way of life, si! The American Way of death, no! - Archie Bunker

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Buddha

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. - Lyman Beecher

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. - Malayan Proverb

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. - Samuel Butler

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. - Pearl S. Buck

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping that it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Churchill

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas

The world can't end today, because it's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz

Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. - Mark Twain

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. - Taylor Swift

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare

When New Zealanders emigrate to Australia, it raises the average IQ of both countries. - Robert Muldoon

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of the other of us has to go. - Oscar Wilde

You know that I'm at death's door. But the trouble is that I'm afraid to knock. - W Somerset Maugham

At the door of life, by the gate of breath, there are worse things waiting for men than death. - A.C. Swinburne The Triumph Of Time

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. - George Carlin

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. - Epicurus

Life is better than death, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. - Alice Walker

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question, "Is there life after death?" - Bette Midler

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts. - Brigitte Bardot

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage. - Rosie Thomas

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Buddha

Thirteen roadways lead through life
To thirteen doors of death,
Homeward from foolish fears and strife
We float on failing breath. - Tao